Even just the word "multitasking" can bring a wide range of emotions. But define what it is? Is it doing many things in a single day? Or doing several different things in a single lifetime?
John Grisham has done well with his legal thrillers, but he has also written other stories which has broadened his audience. King has done the same with horror.
And I could go on and on.
Brandon Sanderson may be known for writing a lot of fantasy, but he has dipped his toes in many different realms in the fantasy genre, and with an insane output of words to boot. He recently had an impressively successful Kickstarter where he wrote a bunch of secret stories while slated by contract to write another tome in his Stormlight Archive series. And not just one, but four!
This might be an area we'll explore more later on. The point of this is based from a TED talk I watched where the speaker gave examples of multitasking but this was over a person's lifetime. I find it okay to do several different types of things, to spread out your talents.
Again, it depends on what your definition of multitasking is.
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